Grey screen

[Dis]

So while playing games with my msi 970 gaming I get grey screens which sometimes lock my pc.I can play with my card oc'd to 1510mhz but if i add about 400mhz to the vram I get grey screens after about 20 min of game time playing WoW/Unity .I know its the vram because when I reset it it doesnt happen again.

Is oc'ing vram that important?I play on a single 1080p monitor btw.Should I just stick it out with the core clock boost and forget vram? Any help would be great.

[Geekazoid]

So while playing games with my msi 970 gaming I get grey screens which sometimes lock my pc.I can play with my card oc'd to 1510mhz but if i add about 400mhz to the vram I get grey screens after about 20 min of game time playing WoW/Unity .I know its the vram because when I reset it it doesnt happen again.

Is oc'ing vram that important?I play on a single 1080p monitor btw.Should I just stick it out with the core clock boost and forget vram? Any help would be great.

Have you tried just OCing it by just 200 - 300MHz instead of the full 400MHz?

[Dis]

Have you tried just OCing it by just 200 - 300MHz instead of the full 400MHz?

Honestly I haven't, I'm still very new to overclocking gpus. When i first got it I was stable at 400mhz, which is why I stayed there.When it happened in say WoW I could alt tab out and back in and I could play without another hiccup for the rest of the night, which always seemed odd.

But I'll try at 2/300 with those games and see how it goes.

[Legitsu]

memory bandwidth really doesn't matter with a single 1080P monitor

the gray screens are a result of nvidia's use of delta compression on the frame-buffer and a overclock that's not stable 

+400Mhz on the vram is asking a lot 

[Geekazoid]

Honestly I haven't, I'm still very new to overclocking gpus. When i first got it I was stable at 400mhz, which is why I stayed there.When it happened in say WoW I could alt tab out and back in and I could play without another hiccup for the rest of the night, which always seemed odd.

Hmm...well that is odd. :huh:

But I'll try at 2/300 with those games and see how it goes.

Alright. Well if you find that you have no problems you could slowly increase it to see how much of an OC you can get before you start to run into problems.

[Dis]

So I tried setting oc'ing mem to both 200/300 in afterburner, I got a brown screen and another grey screen while logged into WoW.

I actually had my screen freeze when I reset my mem but left the 1500 core oc.